Quotes About Resilience

You're not the powerless, scared little girl anymore, I told myself. Nobody's going to whip you with a dowel rod and put you in your room. It's time to grow a backbone.

May turns to me with purpose, stretches intimately close as if she plans to impart a secret. "A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her OWN music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself. Discontent, if watered even the slightest bit, spreads like choke weed. It will smother the garden if you let it,

I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving. It isn't her fault, all that comes to pass after that one final, merciless push.

When I listened to the lady telling her story, I could relate to not being welcome someplace. I liked the idea that God might take that very thing that stunk the worst about your life and change it around into something good.

Life is the messy bits.

because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and sang as white birds in the trees Because the story of our life becomes our life Because each of us tells the same story but tells it differently and none of us tells it the same way twice . . (from, Why We Tell Stories)

Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning gray.

She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.

Lisi Harrison

Lisi Harrison

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

You need to take a historical perspective. You can't make sweeping statements about anything in the world, and there's never been an ideal time when everything made sense—it's just a question of how you look at the advancing tide and deal with remnants of the old order.

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

We can endure neither our evils nor their cures.

Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper.

But, no one can tell without cease our human story, and so we lose, lose

In this life, this is how one must wait, past despair, the heart a fossil, the minutes molten, the feet turned to stone.

Childhood? Which childhood? The one that didn't last? The one in which you learned to be afraid?

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.